Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Residents of the Kakuma refugee camp, home to more than 200,000 refugees from across Africa. (© RFI/Anne Macharia) At the Kakuma ...

At least 300,000 refugees at Kakuma refugee camp are at high risk of contracting viral red eye disease (conjunctivitis). An outbreak of the disease has been reported in Turkana West sub-county where ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 28 April 2006 Heavy rains this week ...

AI can help displaced people avoid exploitation, but humans must call the shots, warn experts. For Susan Achiech, life began ...

The ban had threatened to spread its effects to the volatile security situation along the Kenya-Somalia border as well as within the refugee camps.

Refugees need and deserve the chance to play sports. That’s why governments, sports associations, businesses and foundations, sports clubs, and sports stars all have a role to play in improving access ...

Barham Salih has known torture and the wrenching loss of exile. Four decades after his own ordeal, he has taken the helm of the UN refugee agency as it grapples with a funding shortfall and ...

“Refugees are going days without food, and those who can afford to buy are forced to do with one meal per day.” Queer refugees in Kenya, already displaced by fear of violence in the country, are being ...

Bahram Salih, the new head of the UN's refugee agency says that he knows the pain of being ripped from all one knows. The ...

At least 668 refugees fleeing from Kenya's Kakuma camp due to worsening humanitarian conditions have arrived in Kapoeta East County in South Sudan, authorities have confirmed. Local authorities in the ...

Northern Kenya is home to some of the country’s largest refugee settlements, where hundreds of thousands of people live after fleeing conflict, violence and climate shocks in the Horn of Africa. In ...